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1)"I can't tell you
because you are not a monk"
A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a
monastery. He
goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, "My car broke
down. Do you think I could stay the night?"
The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, even fix his car.
As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound. The next
morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, "We
can't tell you. You're not a monk."
The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his
merry way.
Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same
monastery. The monks accept him, feed him, even fix his car. That
night, he hears the same strange noise that he had heard years
earlier.
The next morning, he asks what it is, but the monks reply, "We can't
tell you. You're not a monk."
The man says, "All right, all right. I'm *dying* to know. If the only
way I can find out what that sound was is to become a monk, how do I
become a monk?"
The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us how many
blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When
you find these numbers, you will become a monk."
The man sets about his task. Forty-five years later, he returns and
knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, "I have traveled the
earth and have found what you have asked for. There are
145,236,284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand
pebbles on the earth."
The monks reply, "Congratulations. You are now a monk. We shall now
show you the way to the sound."
The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says,
"The sound is right behind that door."
The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked. He says, "Real
funny. may I have the key?" The monks give him the key, and he opens
the door. Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The
man demands the key to the stone door. The monks give him the key,
and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. He demands another
key from the monks, who provide it. Behind that door is *another*
door, this one made of sapphire. So it went until the man had gone
through doors of emerald, silver, topaz, amethyst...
Finally, the monks say, "This is the last key to the last door."
The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob,
and behind that door he is amazed to find the source of that strange
sound.
But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.
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2)Friendship
>If you live to be a
hundred, I want
>to live to be a hundred minus one day, so
>I never have to live without you."
>-Winnie the Pooh
>
>"True friendship is like sound
>health; the value of it is seldom known until
>it be lost."
>-Charles Caleb Colton
>
>"A real friend is one who walks in
>when the rest of the world walks out."
>
>"Don't walk in front of me, I may
>not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may
>not lead. Walk beside me and be my
>friend."
>-Albert Camus.
>
>"Strangers are just friends waiting
>to happen."
>
>"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the
>Salad Bowl of Life."
>
>"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
>-Mencius
>
>"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
>
>"If you should die before me, ask if
>you could bring a friend."
>-Stone Temple Pilots
>
>"I'll lean on you and you lean on me
>and we'll be okay."
>-Dave Matthews Band
>
>"If all my friends were to jump off
>a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd
>be at the bottom to catch them"
>
>"Everyone hears what you say.
>Friends listen to what you say. Best friends
>listen to what you don't say."
>
>"We all take different paths in life, but no
>matter where we go, we take a little of each
>other everywhere"
>-Tim McGraw
>
>Pass this on to all of your FRIENDS,
>even if it means sending it to the
>person that sent it to you.
>
3)Pass it to your friends!
Now you can pass them along to your friends and see
how they think
Where's your mind ... A quick test
(answers at the bottom)
1). What is a four-letter word that ends in k and means the
same as intercourse?
2). What is it that a cow has four of and a woman has only two of?
3). What can you find in a man's pants that is six inches long,
has a head on it, and that women love so much that they often blow
it?
4). What word starts with f and ends with u-c-k?
5). Name five words that are each four letters long, end in u-n-t,
one of which is a word for a woman?
6). What does a dog do that you can step into?
7). What four letter word begins with f and ends with k,
and if you can't get one you can use your hands?
8). What is hard, six inches long, has two nuts,
and can make a girl fat?
9). What four-letter word ends in i-t and is found
on the bottom of birdcages?
10). What is it that all men have one of;
it's longer on some men than on others, and the pope doesn't use
his?
1. talk
2. legs
3. a twenty dollar bill
4. firetruck
5. bunt, hunt, runt, punt, aunt
6. pants
7. fork
8. Almond Joy candy bar
9. grit
10. last name
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